Protector for tool-handles.



PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

No. 822,006. I

- J. H. LYONS.

PROTECTOR FOR TOOL HANDLES.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.27,19G5.

John/J7 Witnesse 5% I Htbomegs -J= li*";i tip-if I I r I j STATES PATENT Q F FICE; i HENRY Lyons, or LYONS, OREGON. 7 I sRoTE' c oR FOR TOOL-HANDLES;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

' Application filed February 27, 1905. Serial No. 247,499.

'. To all whom it concern.-

I Be it known that I, Jenn HENRY LYONS, a citlzen ofthe United States, residing at Lyons,

. in the county of Linn and State of Oregon,

have invented anew and useful Protector for Tool-Handles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an im roved ard or shield for tool-handles, and as for its object to providea simple, inexpensive, and eflicient device of this character designed to protect the handle of an ax, mattock,

sledge, or other tool and revent excessive wearg'or injury to the hand e where it enters the latter with a longitudinal key-seat for the guard or with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2

the eye of the .tool.

Aiurther object of the invention is to provide means for preventin accidental displacement of the guard or s 'eldand to form reception of a locking member adapted to be 4 driven into the tool-handle.

'Withithese and other ob'ects in view the p 'dotted lines in Fig. t of the drawings. Drilled or otherwise formed inthe central of the extension 10 is a seat 13, the

invention' consists in the construction and novel combinatlon and arran ement of parts tions, and minor details of construction may be resorted towithout departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention. I

In the accompanying'drawings,'forming a part of'this specification, Figure lis a longitudinalsectional view of an-ax, showing a shield constructed in accordance is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line 3 3' of Fig. 1. Fig; 4 is a detail per spective view-of-the guard orshield detached.

Fig. 5'is a side e'levationshowing. the device applied to a double-bit ax.

imilar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The improved guard or shield'may beapplied to the handle of an ax,pick, or other tool and for sake of illustration is shown ep- 5,) the latter having the usual eye 6 formed therein for the reception of the helve or handle 7. The shield is referably formed of malleableiron or stee and consists of a body ortion 8, bent to conform to the. contour o the Fig. 1 of the drawings.

lied to the ordinaryform of ax, (indicated at and similar tools t e im not of the blow w 'chwould otherwise edges .9 spaced apartto ermitthe same to readlly embrace the han le where the letter enters the eye of the ainas shown. lhe

body portion 8 is provided with a ,reduced extension 10, definingan annular shoulder.

11, said extension being formed with a ter minal laterally-extending In 12 ada ted to engage the top of the ax, w lie the s oulder 11 engages the bottom of the ax, thereby effectually retaining the guard or shield in position on the helve or handle. Theflongitudinal ed es ofthe reducediextension are preferably curved rearwardl and spaced handle and having its adjacent longitudinal apart to form a socket adapte to receive the r adjacent end of thehandle 7, as best shown in Figs. 2 andv 4' of the drawings-v The side walls of the body portion and its reduced extension gradually decrease in thickness toward the longitudinal edges of the same, the latter being preferably temered or otherwise hardened, as indicated by thickened portion I longitudinallydisposed ke lower wall of which is curve or rounded and communicates with-the eye of the a r when the guard or shield is in position on the latter, so that when a nail, key, or other fastening device is introduced in said key-seat and 'a downward pressure exerted thereon the point of the nail will enter the end oi the han dle and prevent accidental displacement of the same. I I

In applying the device the reduced end of the shield is inserted in the eye of the ax with the open end of the shield facin the buttend of the ax, after which the helve or handie is placed in position and the nail or key driven intothe' latter, as clearly shown in wn applied to a ard will receive the juryto the latter.

The shields may be made in different sizes to fit the eyes in different. toolscand may be nickeled, japanned, or otherwise coated or finished to 've'the same a'neat appearance.

Having t us described the invention, what is claimed is The combination with a tool and its han dles, of a detachable shield embracing the handle and comprisin a soft-iron body portion having its paral e1 longitudinal edges tempered and spaced apart to conform to the shape of the tool-handles and gradually in-- creasing in thickness from said edges to the center of the body portion and inclined toward one end of the latter, said body portion being provided at its opposite end with an annular shoulder for engagement with the base of the tool and having a reduced exten- .sion of approximately one-half the width of the body vportion and forming a socket ada t- 20 ed to receive the adjacent longitudinal 0 go of the handle, the end of the extension being bent to form a central laterally-projectin lug for engagementw ith the head of the too and provided with a longitudinal key-receiv- 25- ing I'IGOGSS extending laterally through the walls of said extension and communicating with the eye of the tool, and a key seated in said recess and adapted to pierce the handle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 30 my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of twolwitnesses.

JOHN i HENRY LYONS." Witnesses:

RICHARD P B.. LYoNs, D. K.- CHARLES. 

